Declan Moriarty wrote: <snip>
> BTW, is there some new virus going around? I'm getting mail from people with > a suitably technical subject line (Answering something I hadn't asked) with > gibberish (40K or so) with an audio/x-wav file; here's 2 names from recent > ones > > YOU_ARE_FAT!.MP3.scr or > NEWS_DOC.DOC.scr > > Neither of those files would be comfortable in windoze. M$ Outlook again? And > from memory, .scr is a screensaver, not an audio format > Yep. It's one of the latest Winders worms, spreading by virtue of an un-patched MS Outlook. The tell-tale sign is two file extensions that are different, in the cases above .doc.scr and .mp3.scr. And while .scr may be a screensaver, I believe that Winders considers it executable and will run it if asked to by some user clicking on it. http://antivirus.about.com/library/weekly/aa112401a.htm Tim _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
